Herbert Butterfield
From Quotes
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan MillmanHerbert Butterfield (October 7, 1900 – July 20, 1979) was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931).
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- About the scientific revolution: it “outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes”.
- The origins of modern science, 1300-1800, Bell, 1949.